Panayiotis Kalorkoti is a contemporary British artist. As well as painting in acrylics

Acrylic paint

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 and watercolour

Watercolor painting

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 he does pen and ink drawings and also experimented with etching

Etching

Etching is the process of using strong acid or mordant to cut into the unprotected parts of a metal surface to create a design in intaglio in the metal...

s, screenprints and lithographs

Lithography

Lithography is a method for printing using a stone or a metal plate with a completely smooth surface...

. He tends to produce a series of paintings for a specific exhibition. He works within specific terms of reference and his work has been described as an entirely modern iconography. Most of the work tends to be in groups and it is in the serial works that the viewer will sense a certain questioning and re-focusing.

Panayiotis was born in Cyprus in 1957 and moved to the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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 in 1966. He studied at Newcastle upon Tyne University (1976–80) and the Royal College of Art

Royal College of Art

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, London

London

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 (1982-85).

Panayiotis has had exhibitions in Britain and abroad which include the Imperial War Museum

Imperial War Museum

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, London, National Portrait Gallery, London, and National Garden Festival

National Garden Festival

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, Gateshead. He has worked on major public projects, such as the Grizedale Society, Cumbria and has been ‘artist in residence’ for the Leeds Playhouse

West Yorkshire Playhouse

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 and has won fellowships, scholarships and commissions. He has exhibited regularly in a number of public galleries and museums and has had fifteen catalogues produced which supported his exhibitions. Each publication has a text and writers have included Edward Lucie-Smith

Edward Lucie-Smith

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, Norbert Lynton, Frank Whitford, Mel Gooding, Timothy Hyman, Andrew Lambirth and John Russell Taylor

John Russell Taylor

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.

Publications

• 2007 In a Movement, BIC, Sunderland (catalogue-text by Huon Mallalieu, 48 pages with 72 illustrations, 72 in colour) ISBN 978-0-9556317-0-2
• 2007 Events, European Commission in the UK, London (catalogue-text by John Russell Taylor, 40 pages with 41 illustrations, 41 in colour)
• 2005 In Motion, The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle upon Tyne (catalogue-text by Elspeth Moncrieff, 40 pages with 51 illustrations, 51 in colour) ISBN 0-9549903-0-7
• 2002 Moving Figures, Bangor Museum & Art Gallery, Wales and Tour: Usher Gallery, Lincoln (catalogue-text by Judith Bumpus, 40 pages with 61 illustrations, 61 in colour)
• 2001 Flowers in Watercolour, Gallery K, London and Tour (catalogue-text by Andrew Lambirth, 40 pages with 57 illustrations, 51 in colour) ISBN 1 898710 38 4
• 2000 Acrylics, Watercolours and Etchings, AdHoc Gallery, Buddle Arts Centre, North Tyneside, (catalogue-text by Norbert Lynton, 40 pages with 44 illustrations, 43 in colour) ISBN 0 9531108 0 X
• 1998 Heads, Faces and Figures, Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead and Tour: Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Coventry (catalogue-text by Robin Gibson,40 pages with 70 illustrations, 53 in colour) ISBN 0 905974 71 9
• 1997 An Exhibition of Acrylics, Watercolours and Etchings, Design Works, Gateshead (catalogue-text by Mel Gooding, 60 pages with 55 illustrations, 53 in colour) ISBN 0 9519585 1 8
• 1995 Reflections of Grizedale (Acrylics, Watercolours, Etchings), Gallery in the Forest, Grizedale (catalogue-text by Edward Lucie-Smith, 60 pages with 43 illustrations, 36 in colour) ISBN 0 9525450 0 4
• 1994 Retrospective (Etchings 1983-93), Gallery K, London and Tour: Galerie Titanium, Athens (catalogue-text by Roger Cardinal, 32 pages with 44 illustrations, 33 in colour) ISBN 1 898710 00 7
• 1992 Etchings and Drawings, Cleveland Gallery, Middlesbrough and Tour: Steendrukkerij Amsterdam B.V. (catalogue-text by Frank Van den Broeck, 72 pages with 93 illustrations, 48 in colour) ISBN 0 904784 21 5
• 1992 A Retrospective View 1985-91, Design Works, Gateshead (catalogue-text by Timothy Hyman, 32 pages with 46 illustrations, 44 in colour) ISBN 0 9519585 0 X
• 1990 A Retrospective of Etchings and Screenprints 1978-89, Imperial War Museum, London (catalogue-text by Frank Whitford, 40 pages with 33 illustrations, 20 in colour) ISBN 0 901627 56 9
• 1990 National Garden Festival Commission, 1990, Gateshead and Tour (catalogue-text by Roger Wollen, 40 pages with 234 illustrations, 8 in colour) ISBN 0 901273 15 5
• 1988 Kalorkoti, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne and Tour: Darlington Arts Centre; Gray Art Gallery and Museum, Hartlepool; Queen's Hall Arts Centre, Hexham (catalogue-text by Eva Krabbe, 68 pages with 64 illustrations, 16 in colour)

Public collections

• Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
• British Council
• Imperial War Museum, London
• Arts Council England, North East
• Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle
• University of Northumbria at Newcastle
• Edinburgh University
• Hatton Gallery, Newcastle University
• Gray Art Gallery and Museum, Hartlepool
• Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead
• Darlington Arts Centre
• Cleveland Gallery, Middlesbrough
• Gallery in the Forest, Grizedale
• Ministry of Education, Cyprus
• Durham County Council
• Rank Xerox
• IBM

External links

http://collection.britishcouncil.org/collection/artist/5/17875

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